By Jay Mada,
Publication Date: 2026-09-30 17:56:00
The same tension surfaces in nearly every campus networking conversation with customers: security teams need to move faster, but the network cannot afford to stop.
That tension isn’t new. What’s new is the speed of security threats. In a post-Mythos world, attackers are using AI-assisted tooling to find, adapt, and weaponize vulnerabilities faster than traditional infrastructure operating models were designed to handle. At the same time, campus networks carry more critical traffic than ever: clinicians and carts in hospitals, robots and sensors on factory floors, point-of-sale systems in stores, students and research on university campuses, and now, AI agents that can act continuously across applications and data.
The question is no longer only, “How do I remediate faster?” but also, “How do I reduce exposure immediately, preserve uptime, and still make permanent software updates in a controlled way?”
That’s the operating model this blog post is about. Live Protect…
